Duncan.Lewis@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) (10/04/90)
First off I'd like to thank the few people who responded to my query. about scsi HD controllers with ram expansions on board. The information that I have come up with is sparse at best. I came up with 3 products in the class I was looking for. 1) XETEC FASTCARD PLUS 2) A2091 3) GVP IMPACT HC I am looking in the area of 8 megabytes of memeory and an 80meg HD with a syquest as secondary storage. First I found out that my 1.2 ROMS do not let me autoboot from my HD. So a 30 dollar rom upgrade should help me there. I still have questions about the above products. The Xetec card advertises the ability to go to 8 megs using 'special' 4MB simms. Are these widely available? I dont know anything about the A2091 by CBM. I'd be interested in finding out some speed benchmarks or comments on any owners of the above products. And finally, where can I buy an A2091 cheap thru mail-order? Questions Questions Questions. -Duncan --
jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) (10/05/90)
Sure. My A2091 with the stock Quantum 40 gets about 800k on reads and 460k on writes via DevSpeed. 'Course, since I'm using an aribitrary speed program, my VD0: device (2 megs in size) gets 1080k reads and 630k writes via the same program (for comparison...) -- John M. Adams --**-- Professional Student on the six-year plan! /// Internet: jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu -or- vladimir@maple.circa.ufl.edu /// "We'll always be together, together in electric dreams" Tangerine Dream \\V// Sysop of The Beachside. FIDOnet 1:3612/557. 904-492-2305 (Florida) \X/